Adam playing bass and supporting the rest of the band. Featuring Karl of course showing some love for his fellow band mate #thegreening #bottomofthehill #sfmusicscene #sfmusic #sanfranciscomusic #sanfrancisco #bass #bassist (at Bottom of the Hill)

Michonne (pronounced mih-SHOWN) is a main character and survivor of the outbreak in AMC’s The Walking Dead. After theGreene family farm was overrun by zombies, Michonne encountered Andrea and the two became close friends throughout the winter until they entered Woodbury. Later Michonne left Woodbury and became a key member of Rick Grimes’ group. Her favored weapon is the katana.

There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.A longing wells up in its throatlike a blossomas it breathes slowly.

What does the worldmean to you if you can’t trust itto go on shining when you’re

not there? and there’sa tree, long-fallen; oncethe bees flew to it, like a processionof messengers, and filled itwith honey.

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I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in thegreen pine tree:

little dazzlerlittle song,little mouthful.

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The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. Itgrunts into view. There is no measurefor the confidence at the bottom of its eyes—there is no tellingthe suppleness of its shoulders as it turnsand yawns.Near the fallen treesomething—a leaf snapped loosefrom the branch and fluttering down—tries to pull meinto its trap of attention.

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It pulls meinto its trap of attention.

And when I turn again, the bear is gone.

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Look, hasn’t my body already feltlike the body of a flower?

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Look, I want to love this worldas thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to getto be aliveand know it.

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Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, notthe flowers, not the blackberriesbrimming in the thickets; I won’t drinkfrom the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees;I won’t whisper my own name.

One morningthe fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,and didn’t see me—and I thought: